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Nakita

Ross

Honey

Cheyne

Kaelan

Calla

Ruby

Fifth Installment of Stop Motion Movies

Final installment of these stop motions (THIS TIME AROUND!!!).  I'm sure there will be more just around the corner as the children really enjoyed making these and are constantly looking for opportunities to create some more.  So watch this space!

Liam, Violet, Harlem

Riah, Levi, Charlee

Riah, Charlee

Nicole, Rakai

Frank, Xoriin, Tahlia, Asha

Aiden, Saxdyn, Bailey, Travis

Sage

Fourth Installment of Stop Motion Movies

Yes!  Here we are again.  The children in our team had great fun making these and are so eager to share.  We hope you enjoy.  Please keep commenting and adding your ideas and thoughts.  See if you can work out what these stop motions are about.

Grace, Waiahi, Ollie

Kaye-lani, Ivy, Ross

Heidi, Felicity, Calla

Riah, Levi

Stella, Nakita, Sienna G

Third Installment

Here is the next lot of stop motion movies.  Arn't they fantastic.  Our children are so excited to see how their writing of story boards helps to create amazing movies.

Nerali & Stella

Harley, Nate, Xoriin

Ruby & Khloe

SiennaM, Jade, Harvey

Stop Motion Movies - Second Installment

Here is our second installment of stop motion movies.  Can you guess which nursery rhymes these are about? Let us know what you think. 

Mesiah and Nick

Aiden, Legacy and Prayz

Cheyne and Kaelan

Aumaarire, Aston and Brody (Supported by Stella)

Stop Motion - First installment

This term we have been working hard on our Stop Motion Movies.  We have created mini movies relating to nursery rhymes.  Here are the first of our Stop Motion Movies see if you can guess what nursery rhyme they are about. 

Stella and Nerali

Sapphire and Laylah

Honey, Khloe and Ruby

Mesiah and Nick (Supported by Aiden)

Maths workshops

Heidi has the iMovie bug!!!

Today we had our maths workshops.  We decided to take some short snippets of things we were doing.  Heidi saw the opportunity to step up again... Not only has she volunteered to run one of our workshops next week but she also wanted to create an iMovie to show others what we do.

She worked with Legacy and Stella to get this movie published in time to share at our assembly in the afternoon.  

Pretty impressive.

Stop Motion Movie Making Instructions

This week during writing time children working with Mrs C Monday and Wednesday were asked to make a  movie explaining the steps of stop motion.  

Their first task was to discuss the steps that needed to make a movie.

Write these down clearly for others to read and listen to.

Record the scenes that supported each of the steps.

Piece it all together using iMovie - including adding the written steps.

What a great result they have come up with.  Ruby, Nicole and Heidi did a great job of piecing it together and they did a great job of sharing it at assembly.  Well done.

Heidi I am so proud of you for stepping up and volunteering.  This was not your writing group but when you saw and opportunity to get yourself involved you grabbed it (and nailed it).  To be honest, once you saw the opportunity to get involved.  MAGIC!!!

Our new School Pou

Recently we had our new Pou unveiling.  Here is a story that Sienna M made and published using Explain Everything.  The part she enjoyed most was taking and adding pictures.  It was really strange because Mrs G suggested taking these pictures in Portrait rather than Landscape (but they soon worked out why).  

Sienna M wanted to share this 'Recount' as it had a clear introduction, sequence and conclusion.  

Recounts haven't been our classes focus for a while so Mrs G and Ms F were very proud that Sienna M had remembered to include all these parts of a recount.  Mrs Craig was too. 

One thing Sienna M learn't was that she needed to count 1, 2, after she and finished talking so she didn't end up cutting the end off her recording.  Great effort Sienna M.

Butterfly Life Cycle

Here is a presentation that Maia and Laylah created following the visit from the Butterfly Lady.

They researched their facts. 

Then decided what to write on each slide.

Next they added their pictures (and took pictures), to match what they were saying on each slide.

Finally they added their voices to each slide to make it more interesting.

They thought it was a shame that they didn't do this in the first term when there were so many caterpillars chrysalis and butterfly around our classroom.

Stop Motion

This week we have been learning to use Stop Motion on the iPads. Our focus has been to move objects in small steps and learn tips on what makes a good movie.

So far we have found out these things:

• You need to keep the iPad in the same place.
• Only move objects a little bit each time.
• You need lots of shots for one video.
• A background looks good behind the lego.
• We need to make sure our hands are not in the shot.

This first movie is by Nakita and Kaelan.

Our second movie is by Kaelan and Harvey.

Our third movie is by Waiahi and Keeara.

Our Stop Motion experts will be showing more kids how to use this app next week.

Learning Time

Here it is the sequel you've all been waiting for!

Harvey, Kaelan, and Rakai have put together a trailer to show some of our learning we do in Room 4. 

• First they brainstormed all the different subjects they wanted to shoot. 
• Next they used a storyboard to keep track of which learning they had taken a photo and video of. 
• Finally they put together all their footage into an amazing movie to share with you.

We can't wait for the third installment 'Playtime!'

Smoothie Day

Today in Room 4 we were learning to read and write recipes.

We had so many delicious bananas and apples we decided to make smoothies. 

First we wrote a recipe for our smoothie. 

Then we washed our hands. 

Next we cut up the bananas and apples and put them in the blender. 

After the fruit we poured in the milk and turned on the blender. It made a very loud noise! Finally we poured the smoothie into cups and drank them!

Here are some photos of our smoothie moustaches! 

       

Captain Cashtastic

On Wednesday we had a very special visitor come to our school... 

Captain Cashtastic! 

He taught us all about the different types of money and their values. we also learnt the difference between a want and a need. Some things we need to buy to help our lives like food or clothing. Some things we want to buy but we don't really need like toys. 

We can't wait for this savings superhero to come back again!

          

Butterfly Lady

We were so lucky to have a special visit from the Butterfly Lady today! We loved her hat and her bright butterfly top!
We learnt all about the different stages of the life cycle. We didn't know the first thing a caterpillar eats is the egg it hatches from. We also learnt about how the caterpillar makes the shape of the letter J when it begins to change into a chrysalis.
Mrs Stevenson dressed up into a butterfly outfit. She had 6 legs, 2 long antenna, many eyes, beautiful wings, and a long tongue called a proboscis.

Can you remember all the different stages of the life cycle?

Fractions - Cupcakes in a mug baking

As part of our fractions rotation children have been working with a buddy to reading a recipe with lots of fractions in, and discussing what that means and finding the right measuring cups/spoons to use for each ingredient.  Please feel free to remake these at home.  If you can come up with some new cupcake recipes that help you and your children discuss fractions at home, please feel free to share these in the comments below so that this post becomes a resource for everyone.

Here are some photos of the kids with their finished cupcakes, just before they go into the microwave for 2 minutes.

Here is the link to the recipe we used for this lesson.

 

 

 

Fractions Wall building

This week our team has been having lots of learning about fractions.  We have been rotating around different activities including Fractions wall making, Playdough shape cutting, Fractions colouring, and Fractions BAKING!

There is a Explain everything about the Fractions Wall making.  Watch this space for more examples from our fractions week.

Found Poems - Get NZ Writing

Here are some examples of Found poems that we created.  We looked them up and decided they were a bit like blackout poems.  Below are some examples of what we came up with.

To make them we had to start with a piece of text.  We decided that rather than using a newspaper we would use some of the story we had focused on last week.  And why not ... MONSTERS are ALWAYS a fun topic.

Second we spent time finding and circling key words that we liked in the writing.

Next we found words that would link our key words together.

Finally we spent time blacking out the rest of the words on the page.  

Maia                               Parani                           Ruby

 Kayelani                        Sara                         Charlee

 Liam                             Aiden                           Stella

 Laylah                            Olivia

Get NZ Writing Package

In Team Maunga we have been learning lots about writing letters and postcards this term.  This was leading us up to sending a package to a school in Stratford.  Here are some images of us getting our package ready to send.  Remember to ask us about what we should include in a Letter or Postcard (or ask us about how we use WETA for letter writing / Postcards.  For more information on this please look up other posts on this topic.

Preparing the postcards and messages.

Taking photos to explain the rock we included in our parcel

  Revisiting statistics work from the beginning of the year to work out how many siblings we have altogether.  We loved using Tally marks to help work this out.

 Researching who could lick their elbow (not all children have photos here so ask your child if this was them).

Working out who our tongue rollers were (again there were more children than we have images of here so ask your child about this).

 

 Sealing the package and Posting it at our Local NZ Post shop.

THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR THIS AMAZING EXPERIENCE WAREHOUSE STATIONARY!